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vains posted:kcs seems to be the only railroad with their wits about them. I think a lot of it is because of their size, they get a perspective the big 6 don't have. The rest seem to be following in Harrison's footsteps of "gut maintenance spending, hand it to investors", but I could be wrong if that's changed lately.
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KCS is by far the easiest railroad I've ever worked with (besides the one I work at). Very solid people over there, and the culture seems to be really positive.
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I duno if it's insanity but it sure is drat interesting. Really good audio too.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMbMH3UF7Q0
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McDeth posted:I duno if it's insanity but it sure is drat interesting. Really good audio too.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMbMH3UF7Q0 Insanity might just be the fact that I'm pretty sure that the guy you keep seeing cranking something just in front of the cab on the left side is manually operating an injector.
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McDeth posted:I duno if it's insanity but it sure is drat interesting. Really good audio too.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMbMH3UF7Q0 Welp... thanks for the YouTube rabbit hole. Several videos now about trains in Burma and 2 hours later now watching a doc about traveling across Iran by train. drat it Youtube.....
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More weird Myanmar poo poo - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3502lHaZQIo also there's a Romanian minivan edition which features them jacking it up on some bits of wood and scaffold pole to spin it round and go the other way: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zeBIxI7n1I
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268 car (+4 loco) iron ore train ran away at 100kph when the driver got out to check a warning on a car in The Pilberra. Ops let it run for ~80km before derailing it remotely before it got to the ore loader at the coast and did serious damage. Video of the wreck (It should be noted that the train was a normal one yet carrying only one driver for some reason, but this line is a prototype for driverless, and driverless tech was officially not at all responsible)
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Only one driver because BHP and Rio Tinto are too cheap to hire two crews for trains. So they're going robotic on their lines.
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Aren't there meant to be safety features which stop that from happening if the driver is incapacitated /asleep?
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pointsofdata posted:Aren't there meant to be safety features which stop that from happening if the driver is incapacitated /asleep? I thought this is literally what a deadman switch was supposed to be, and that they were ubiquitous?
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US railroads use alerters which are half deadman switch half "are you awake?" notification. Basically every 30 seconds to 2 minutes (I think) they beep, and if you wait too long to hit it the brakes are applied.
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Nov 6, 2018 18:40
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What's the value of that amount of ore? Ditto for that many railcars.
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spog posted:What's the value of that amount of ore? 1:1, as it sits
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spog posted:What's the value of that amount of ore? Ore isn't that valuable, even refined stuff is only $100-200/ton. Cars are, just axles are a couple of thousand dollars each and thats 248*6 or 248*4.
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Ore is valuable when it is multiple trains per day on that line. $55m per day losses if the stockpile at port hedland runs out. They have about a week until export losses kick in. Loss of the train + wagons & track replacement work is probably a few million.
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I was just commenting on the value of ore in a vacuum, no poo poo lost production and track repairs will cost roughly $nightmare. One mangled switch here where 8-10 ore trains go past each day is $80k in repairs and many times that in lost production if it starts affecting traffic.
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drunkill posted:Ore is valuable when it is multiple trains per day on that line. I wonder how their R/C trains will handle a burning journal box - I don't even know if they've got trackside cameras for rolling inspections.
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The value of the train or ore or the lost transport for a week it takes to clear the line don't really matter to a trillion dollar company. $nightmare for most companies is a rounding error for them. The problem is that as a company they've bet very heavily on mine automation and this is a very embarrassing and public stuff-up. Automating this train line was stage 1.1 because it was the easiest bit of the easiest mine, and they've shown they can't get the easy stuff right yet.
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IPCRESS posted:I wonder how their R/C trains will handle a burning journal box - I don't even know if they've got trackside cameras for rolling inspections. Probably not even give a poo poo about it until it gets to the other end. I passed a rail grinding machine out in the middle of nowhere at night once out on the Eyre Peninsula for work. They'd set fire to about 150km of rail verge and were going full send into the night when we turned away from them.
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 whoopsUncontrolled 80-car train rolls a quarter kilometre through Calgary's inner city https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/runaway-train-cp-canadian-pacific-alyth-calgary-yard-rolled-away-1.4896921 Shared via the CBC News Android App
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Ok, here's some Ai poo poo from Albania here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unhXEQQk8G8
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Boomer The Cannon posted:Ok, here's some Ai poo poo from Albania here: It looks like you posted a video from West Virginia by accident, though?
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IPCRESS posted:I wonder how their R/C trains will handle a burning journal box - I don't even know if they've got trackside cameras for rolling inspections. roadside detectors probably. roadside detection equipment is relatively inexpensive compared to the cost of a derailment and the impact of a derailment on operations. since their equipment is captive and the railroad piece is a cost center for them, they're probably balls deep in big data analytics on repairs.
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Taking a Amtrak long distance sleeper from Denver to CA. It's already more than a hour late. AMA.
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nm posted:Taking a Amtrak long distance sleeper from Denver to CA. It's already more than a hour late. AMA. I took the Southwest Chief last month which was 30min early getting into LA, which was a surprising and nice change from my ride on the Empire Builder last year which got into Chicago almost six hours late.
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We're making up time now. Just the Colorado section has made the entire fare worth it. Also I have 8 pint cans of good beer in a cooler, so things are looking good.
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nm posted:We're making up time now. Just the Colorado section has made the entire fare worth it. I'm jealous. I was going to take a trip from DC to Pittsburgh instead of flying for a work conference, but sadly the train left at 5 pm and got in at midnight, so I wouldn't see anything interesting. It's a shame, I bet the trip through the mountains is pretty.
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Boomer The Cannon posted:Ok, here's some Ai poo poo from Albania here: Neat to see him tapping the line in a crude form of PWM speed control. Looks like the control unit is hosed other than for forward and reverse.
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Log082 posted:I'm jealous. I was going to take a trip from DC to Pittsburgh instead of flying for a work conference, but sadly the train left at 5 pm and got in at midnight, so I wouldn't see anything interesting. It's a shame, I bet the trip through the mountains is pretty. For the record this has been loving awesome and we're only getting in like a hour late (knock on wood). Also, I killed 8 strong pint cans.
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nm posted:For the record this has been loving awesome and we're only getting in like a hour late (knock on wood). Also, I killed 8 strong pint cans. My flight was actually pretty good and short and I STILL got the short end of the stick here, I can tell (the pint cans are a clue)
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We had the coolest room attendant and dining car staff, with lax enforcement of the outside booze in your room only rule. Lots of interesting people too. The scenery was also amazing.
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nm posted:For the record this has been loving awesome and we're only getting in like a hour late (knock on wood). Also, I killed 8 strong pint cans. I have hosed up both times I've done an Amtrak sleeper car trip in that I did not bring a cooler. I've got a million Amtrak points now thanks to those trips+the Amtrak Mastetcard bonus so I'm trying to decide which route I should try out next. Chicago to New Orleans? Chicago to Austin? Never been to either city, anyone know if one route is more scenic than the other?
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Sirotan posted:I have hosed up both times I've done an Amtrak sleeper car trip in that I did not bring a cooler. Go all out and either go to San Francisco or Seattle/Portland. The scenery was so good. I've heard some of the shorter routes also have pretty lame food now, which would be a bummer. The food was actually pretty solid on this.
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Conclusion on the Pilbara train accident:quote:I am pleased to advise that this week we have safely returned to full rail operations with ore flowing to the port 10 days after the intentional iron ore train derailment south of Port Hedland.
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Neddy Seagoon posted:Why would you design a braking system on a train to automatically release? Don't worry, the driver will be at fault because he didn't set the emergency air brakes before he stepped out. Though, if that is actually the parking brake, shouldn't it be called the parking brake? It isn't really being used in emergency if it regularly is used.
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No idea if Aussie trains have anything in common with trains that operate in North America, but the rail cars in N.A. interchange service have two braking systems, air brake and hand brake. Hand brake is mechanical and holds a car stationary. It's operated by hand, engineers can't operate them remotely. There's one per car, and since one won't hold an entire train stationary, you need to walk the train applying as many as you need. Air brake runs off air pressure, and depends on an air line running the length of the train to feed it compressed air. The air brake system on each car has a tank which stores air, and if the line running the train gets ruptured, the tank sends its pressure to the brakes. Every car on the train will do this, and it'll stop the train automatically. The air can bleed off gradually though, and if the hand brakes aren't applied soon, gravity can take over and the train can roll away. This happened in Lec Megantic. Neddy Seagoon posted:Why would you design a braking system on a train to automatically release? A rail car's natural state is to roll free, like a car in neutral with its parking brake off. This makes them handy to shunt move around mines, terminals, factories, plants, and sorting yards while they're not part of a train. To have spring-operated brakes that require air pressure to release, you'd need each car to have an engine, compressor, battery and fuel, to make them reasonable to move around on a moment's notice. They also need the ability to sit in the same spot, in every kind of weather, full shade or full sun, for years on a storage track, and then be ready to go with next to no maintenance, so a lot of ancillary braking methods won't be both cost-effective and feasible.
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